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PO.-British India Apcar and

Eastern Australian

&

Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

BTRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA.. INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.3.

From

Tona Hong Kong]

About

1935.

· †BANGALORE

*KIDDERPORE

CHITRAL..

CARTHAGE

**BHUTAN

CATHAY

*BEHAR

6,000 2nd Mar.

5,500 2nd Mar.

16,000 9th Mar,

15,000 93rd Mar.

6,100 30th Mar.

18,200 8th Apr.

6,100 13th Apr.

CORFU

**SOUDAN RANCHI

16,000 20th Apr.

7,000 27th Apr.

17,000 4th May

Destination.

Martellles, Havre, London, Hamburk,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. S'pore, Penang, Columbo, Bombay

Karachi and Persian Gulf.. Marseilles & London

DO

Marelles, Havre, London, Hamburg

Roterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935

Left to

Bag and baggage, the Earles more from their home at Haverford, Pa., to Harrisburg where the father, George H. Earle, became Pennsylvania's Arst. Democratic governor in 60 years." right are Lawrence, Gov. Earle, “Earle and Hubert. Ralph, baby of the family, is in fronta

ORIGIN OF QUININE FREIGHT TRAIN

INDUSTRY

Romance Like That Of Rubber

SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM'S FORESIGHT

(Continued From

Page 10)

picking up a comfortless voyage to where, it was coming from, where some port that lay fantastically it was going to... distant beyond the dim horizon. Au Journeys! Well, he'd had some end to that life of hardship ....queer journeys in his time. Queer und freedom...........

experiences, too-some

of them He yawned. The room, he good, some sordid, a few of them thought, felt overheated, stifling-disreputable. But occasionally there he'd never be able to sleep comfort had been a glamorous adventure. But for the foresight and en- terprise of the late Sir Clements ably in here! Crossing over to the The memory of those adventures, Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London markham, whose effigy stands out-window, he threw back the curtains the recollection of half-forgotten

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & side the home of the Royal Geo- and pushed the cusement wide episodes, came back to him as hel Marseilles & London.

graphical Society, the S.0.S. for open, letting in the cold, crystal walked along in the still of the quinine sent from Caylon to Java

clear air. He breathed deep of it. night. He recalled a lucky striko and India when the malaria refreshed and invigorated him that had enabled him to live splen epidemic broke

like a draught of spring water.. out" would have

didly for a brief exotic spell, and been much more difficult to an-

The night was perfectly tranquil. he remembered the period of grind- swer.

The moon, almost at the full, rose ing. toll which inevitably follow."

Hull.

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hu}}, Bombay, Marseilles & London.

* Cargo only. + Calls Crianca."

steamers of the

Frequent connection from Fort Sald for Passengers and Cargo to Con-trees tantinople, Piraeus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by Khedivial Mall Steumship Co.'

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1935.::

SHIRALA

TILAWA

8,000 1st Mar. Sporn, Penang and Calcutta. ∙10,000 | 15th Mar.

-do

SANTHIA

8,000 20th Mar.

TALMA

-do-

đọ

SIRDHANA

10,000 12th Apr.

8,000 20th Apr.

majestically in a cloudless sky, and Godfrey was right time he the stars winked faintly in the high, settled down....

limitable arc. Below him the But he kred to think of the countryside lay mysterious and still; women,He had loved--a girl in widespread panorama steeped in Stockholm with brass-gold hair and the greyish green haze that tiare a skin like a peach-a dark beauty everything with the colour of by the shores of the Bosphorus-

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Mar. 30, 8 a.m. .Apr., 12;. B ̈n.m.

Pres. Adam K

Pres. Harrison

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Fortnightly sailings

Pres. Jackson....Mar. 2, 6,00 m, Prea, McKinley ..Mar. 16, 6.00 mm. Pres. Grant ",,.Mar. 30, 6.00] H.ML | Prés Jefferson: Apr. 13, 8.00, a.m...... Pres. "Jackson..........Apr. 27. 6.00 p.m.

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Pres. Van Buren Mar. 2, 8.00 a.m. Pres. Wilson Mar 5, 6.00 p.m.. Pres. McKinley Mar.2, 6.00 p.m.. Pres. Hoover 7. Mar. 14, 9.00 p.m.

Apr. 27, 8 a.m. - Pres." Garfeld: Mar. 16, '8.00 2.mə

BOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE

BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE

MONTHLY SERVICE

Το

NEW YORK. SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES. and

the sweating the M.S.

It was in, the middle of the last contury that Sir Clements Mark ham saw how quickly Peru, the only source of the cinchona tree. from the bark of which quinine is obained, was bing denuded of the

He went secretly, to the Peru-f lichen. He no longer wanted to go an impudent odalisque in Paris. vian forests and picked out seeding

to bed. Bawanted to go out and Well, all that was done with now. specimens with a view to trans-roam about in the deserted lanes Everything. planting them in the East. The quiet felds. Yet he hesitated spending the lawlessness and the plants that were cultivated at Kew-if he went creeping downstairs, loneliness-done with. To-morrow vielded seeds which are in- undoing doors, and fumbling with Godfrey would talk about poultry chona plantations in India.

bolts and locks he'd probably die farms, and Tony would agree to be By the beginning of the present turb someone. He wondered how have himself and settle down, give century quinine had been reduced far it was to the ground an easy up his wanderings,

price to a few pence per ounce, enough drop, he decided, putting How peaceful these folds around Before Markham went on his ex-

This head out to see... especially him. He'd be seeing them, day- In, pedition it was 208, per ounce vine to hang on to.

{with that great twisted wisteria day out, for the rest of his life The cost of his expedition

possibly. The same fields always He had hoisted himself half over the same fields. They would change the window sill when he remember colour with the seasons, but they'd ed he was still wearing Ronnie's always be the same fields. Perhaps clothes better change back into his his chickens would run about some own old things, he decided, for this of them. Well, he'd have to start And he rummaged about at thinking about hens soon-mashes, the back of the wardrobe, where he corn egga-putting coloured rings had flung his disreputable gar- on scaly yellow legs... Hatening ments. They felt strangely unto that sensible woman, Adain-the familiar already, those old clothes, might even marry him.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent Accommodation for £864. 1st and 2nd class passengers.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South,

2.

TANDA

NANKIN INELLORE

1985.

2nd Mar.

7,000 7,000

11 a.m. Manila,'. Robaut, Brisbane, Sydney, 2nd Apr, Melbourne & Hobart, 3rd May

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney — 19 days.

(Surdag, Fishing, Shooting, and money is worth 25 per cent, matu).

WAR

GERMAN MATCHES IN OLD HOUSE Concealed For More Than 50 Years

once.

wards horizon.

on

PANAMA CANAL Ports,

Next Sailing

"TAI PING YANG"

MARCH 18th

Excellent Accommodation

for 12 Passengers ga

DODWELL & CO ITD

Queen's Buildings.

Agents

Telephone 28021

PROVED INNOCENT, WANTED REFUGE IN

AFTER 20 YEARS

PRISON

But Death Claimed Him First

PATHETIC END OF OLD MAN

But Mother And Father In the ceiling of a building at so loose. South Bowenfels New South Switching off all the lights with

Died In Prison Wales, which has served as a post the exception of the one at the planned the railway cutting. It In December 1914 the Moreau

He came to a stone bridge that office for more than 50 years, a head of the bed-better leave that was like a deep gash in the ground, family, living, at Loos on the West Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan earthed, the oldest dated 1854, sure of fading his way back to the caught the glint of the moonlight of signalling with a lamp to Ger years of age, shuffled into a Chicago number of documents were un-on, he told himself, so as to make dark except where the polished rails on front, were jointly found guilty A shabby old man, about 70 and a dozen boxes. of matthes re-right room-he pocketed a handful He leaned his arms on the parapet man troops AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holiday.sembling the safety match of to- of aigarettes from a capacious, box, and looked down upon the perman- They protested their innocence

police station. STA Climates to suit all.. Your Mag day. The matches were of Ger- buttoned his coat across his chest, ent way they were like wands. but the mother was sentenced to disorderly conduct? It'll give me

How about charging me with man manufacture

and, swinging himself over the *** No "Additional. Clarge for Dark Cablas.. Sun Deck Brimming Pool- One old document referred to a ledge, dropped like a cat on to the more bright wils, pointing away to death, a penalty later commuted to warm spot in gaol for the winter Orchestra carried Laundry-BurgosumStewardom.

purchase ticket issued by the soft earth below.

Imprisonment for life, and the he said to the desk sergeant, Servies are unsurpassed.

Royal Mine at Sydney, Dec. 7. With a sense of exquisite freedom. The night became filled with the others were sent to gaol for various The sergeant sent the old man Union 8.3. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom in New 1860, to W. Goodin for 16 ounces he set off across the dewy turf. Tony thought, "I'll stay and see it

approaching racket of the train... terms.

around the corner to the court, Lealand, Vancouver, Ban Francisco, sich

of gold, which, being refined was

The father and mother died in where he sat on a bench to await bought for £39 178, 9d.

As be made his WAY me go by A train was always fas prison. yielding softness of the dark lawn cinating to him. It would be a Now two sons, who had served in prison. When the clerk of his free pass to a winter refuge he thought to himself, “Godfrey ought to be out here anjoying this!"elief to see something hurrying fifteen years, have had their case courte called

Steward Charles but he knew in his heart that, God thear steady felds...

against the quiet background of retried,

Steward. Disorderly conduct, there frey would find no pleasure prow He wished suddenly he had seen a awarded £900 in damages..

They have been rehabilitated and was no reply, and the judge tapped

Impatiently. Kind Employers Haled in bed and asleep.

ling about when everyone else bit more of the world such a grand

"Charles Steward, hurry world { was that: "God" það made. Into Court

called the clerk. But Charles Steward was dead.

Frequent counselling "Australia" "with the following:—

The P. & O. Boyal Mail Stammters to Londos and

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamura to London via Buen.

The New Zealand Shipping Company steamers for Southampton and London vis Panama CanéLOW

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

Amoy, Shal, Moll, Kobe & Osaka.

Shanghai, Koba & Yokohama.

SYMPATHETIC FIRM AND BUS DRIVER

He hadn't seen anything like

enough of it, yet.

If he stayed here.

Through a low-set door to the grey wall, Tony came out into the A Doncaster omnibus driver highway that wound twisting and wanted Monday evenings off to see sinuous between tall hedgerows. hiasweetheart.

He sniffed at the scented darkn His sympathetic employers re- and set off, walking with the steady Shah, Mojl, Robe, Oinks & Yokohama Banged his working, schedule to lope of the professioni traum up in a sulfing cloud from unde

achieve this, and spread the hours Shaf, Kobe, Yokohama,

over the rest of the week

-dom

1935.

SANTHIA

BEHAR

CATHAY

NANKIN

*BOUDAN

TALMA

CORFU

8,000 7th Mar.

0,100 7th Mar.

15,000

8th Mar 7,000 9th Mar,

7,009- 20th Mar,

10,000 Ziet Mar.

14,500 22nd Mar

Amoy, S'hal; Moji, Kobe & Osaka,

S'hai,. Kobe, : Yokohama.

only

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notion

Little noises of the night came But they were summoned for to him faintly distinctly furti ya working the driver more than the rustling in the lush grasses of a regulation number of hours un the shallow ditch, th

plaintive other days

The magistrates were also sympa. thetic. They diamissed the case on payment of costs

HEADMASTER'S EXPERIENCE

OF WAR BABIES

call of a bird in the hedge the sharp

the like a black

The roar of the train as it swept Into the cutting plunged his mind to ace Smoke came belching

7% of the bridga,

down at

open

nalin

freig

the dull, mutter

rin hurr

Lhimself up on to

his raus

FRANCIS LIGHT, FOUNDER OF PENANG

For 150 years successive ger erations have neglected an obri

Aaye Sir Frank Swe

a former Governor of the in commenting on a prope

rward Gina Penang · to erect

rial to Captain Fri

under of the northern

The memorial in

the 180th anniversa

which will fall on July 15

SOUVENIR POTTERY FOR SILVER JUBILEE

GENEROUS SECRET HOSPITAL DONOR

£125,000 Already Given

Sr. Mary

ital

A furth

Ington, £80,000

al-

98,000.

romise

con

olonel

All Cabins are fitted with Electria Fans or Punks Louvi Steamers on London and Australian Linne ure fitted with ¿Parqala) massuring not more than 5-eu. ft: will be recali

isa Ofice' up, to Noon on the day previous bo

Wordfurther information, Pamigy, Fright,

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